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Selected as a Best Book of 2023 by the Guardian , Irish Times , Harper''s Bazaar, Esquire and i-D The highly-anticipated new novel by the Booker-shortlisted author Brandon Taylor. An exploration of sex, love, identity and politics In the shared and private spaces of Iowa City, a social circle of lovers and friends navigate tangled webs of connection as they try to figure out what they want, and who they are. At the centre of the group are three dancers: Ivan, tall and stoic, who is leaving ballet for a career in finance; Fatima, whose work ethic earns her both admiration and enmity; and Noah, who ''didn''t seek sex out so much as it came up to him like an anxious dog in need of affection.'' As they test their own desires in a series of relationships - and in other, clandestine ways - they are buffeted by other volatile figures in town, from an unruly, vulnerable young poet to a local landlord nursing a lifetime of resentment. Finally, after a series of violent encounters, the group heads to a cabin to bid goodbye to their former lives, and waves of long-buried heartache resolve into moments of unexpected tenderness. Filled with scenes of aching intimacy, The Late Americans is Brandon Taylor''s richest and most involving work of fiction to date, confirming his position as one of our most perceptive chroniclers of loneliness and desire in contemporary life.
A propos de l'auteur
Brandon Taylor is the author of the novels
The Late Americans and
Real Life, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, and named a
New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and a Science + Literature Selected Title by the National Book Foundation. His collection
Filthy Animals, a US bestseller, was awarded the Story Prize and shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. He is the 2022-2023 Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. He tweets at @blgtylr, where he has 90k followers, and his newsletter can be found at: blgtylr.substack.com.
